Ecosystem Relationships
The study of living and non living things
What is Ecology
The living parts of an ecosystem is called this
What are biotic factors ?
Organisms such as plants that make their own food and produce their own energy from the sun are called this?
What are producers?
A graph or chart that shows how energy goes through an ecosystem and a graph or chart that shows overlapping food chains (who eats who) is the difference between...
What is a food chain and a food web?
Eats both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
A place where living and non living things interact
What is an Ecosystem
All the living things in an ecosystem
What is a community?
An organism that that needs to eat another plant or animal to stay alive is called this
What is a consumer?
What is an omnivore?
The ways 2 or more organisms interact and one always benefits is this type of relationship
What is symbiosis?
One organism depends on another to live
What is dependence
A specific place where organisms choose to live based on what it needs
What is a habitat
Predators hunt their what?
What is prey
An organism that will only eat meat
What is a carnivore?
When both organisms benefit it's called this
What is mutualism?
2 or more or organisms that need each other to survive.
What is interdependence
Something in the ecosystem that can make/ cause the population go up or down
What is a limiting factor
Producing energy from the sun
What is photosynthesis?
A secondary consumer eats this type of organism (who also must be an omnivore or a carnivore)
Who is a primary consumer?
A flea on a dog is an example of this type of relationship?
What is a parasite/host relationship?
A specific number of an organism that lives in an ecosystem
What is population
The amount of organisms that can live in an ecosystem that is controlled by limiting factors and can lead to overpopulation
What is carrying capacity
The bottom of the food chain is always this type of organism?
What is a producer?
Energy does this as you move up the food chain
What is decrease?
An organisms place or job in the ecosystem
What is a niche?